Tokyo Express
Seichō Matsumoto
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Recommended by Anya
‘Tokyo Express is a short banger, thrilling and beautifully written. If you love trains and the inner workings of public transport, this is the book for you. The investigation spans across multiple Japanese regions and follows a suspicious love suicide which may or may not have been a calculated crime.’
From the publisher
Translated by Jesse Kirkwood
'A classic of postwar Japanese crime fiction' Financial Times
'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime...
Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.